Will Natal boost hardware sales ?

[jarrod]

Hus said:

jarrod said:

Mainstream/casual interest for Natal won't start until the E3 hype hits. Right now it's mainly industry buzz, but analysts and publishers alike are already singing it's praises.

This in pretty notable contrast to Gem, which has basically no industry buzz and launches in just a few months.

Actions speak louder then words. 

Buzz hype means nothing, Wii had SALES yet the 3rd partys pretty much turned their back on it.  Yet in a recession they will spend tens of millions developing new games for a new hardware ADD ON with NO user base and experimental controls.

lol

360 savior sure is going up agiast some hard conditions, i see no publisher dumb enough to take the risk on NAtal unless MS cuts them a 20million dollar cheque to do so.   

Put away you bsbias bud and tell me where would any sane logical person risk millions of dollars on.  Wii with 63 million user base, a multi plat game on PS3/360 65 million user base or on a Natal 360.... 0 user base.  Anwser is easy to see.

 

 

 

 

 

360 doesn't need a savior, it's been successful enough and significantly improved the Xbox business already.  It's already a "win" for Microsoft.

In terms of Natal support, it pretty much sounds like everyone's going to do something, but I'm not expecting much.  Big budget core games will stay HD multi, low budget casual and niche games will stay on Wii, Gem & Natal will gets the scraps that fall between.